Yasmeen Ghauri, a former supermodel from Canada, was born on March 23, 1971. Yasmeen Ghauri was born to a German mother, Linda, and a Pakistani father, Moin, in Montreal, Quebec. Ghauri was a Muslim, had a terrible upbringing, and was tormented at school because of her Pakistani ancestry. When Ghauri was 12, she traveled to Mecca with her parents for the Islamic Hajj pilgrimage. Edward Zaccaria, a Montreal hairdresser and artistic director of Platine Coiffure, met Ghauri while working at a McDonald’s restaurant when she was 17 years old. Soon after her discovery, the fashion industry underwent a conceptual change, shifting away from mostly Nordic-looking models and toward more models of color, a movement that Ghauri helped to initiate.
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